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Time will tell. Just sick of the know-it-all naysayers on this, a conservative site, who seem to practically be water carriers for the dems and Obama day in and day out. Not saying you’re that, just the negativity has become the worst thing I can think of if you want your point of view considered-boring.

Lots of posters on here who are terrified by the prospect of an attack on Ryan's budget. I have to ask: how the hell are we going to overcome the crushing and nearly intractable financial problems this nations faces with debt and entitlements if we can't even *talk* about the problem? Does everyone understand the amount of political wrangling and legislation that wold be necessary to actually make a dent in our problems? Has anyone besides Ryan even offered a flesh-ed out proposal to reduce the deficit or address spending?

This reminds me of the Harriet Miers nomination firestorm. Some on here wanted to just accept Bush's personal lawyer, because she seemed safe and inoffensive. But others were right to assert themselves and insist on a proven conservative nominee to the USSC. We got Alito, who has been excellent. In the same vein, I trust Paul Ryan to be able to articulate his case if he is in fact the nominee (of which we're not even sure yet).

the negativity has become the worst thing I can think of if you want your point of view considered-boring.

It's not negativity to say that Romney's team has not done a great job responding to Obama lies and distortions so far. It's an objective observation that has been made by a long list of very well known conservative commentators.

And they had better become much quicker and smarter in their response to Obama lies and distortions. The response to the "Romney caused the death of the steelworker's wife" ad was one of the worst in modern political history: "If they'd lived in Mass. they'd have had health insurance".